Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> New Business Enterprises

Now is your chance. Starting up a business has never been more exciting.

This book explains what you really need to know to make your business a success:
- How you'll know if you've got a good idea
- The practicalities of setting up a company
- How to manage the money
- How to sell what you do
- How to make sure you stay soon through it all.

This is the book you need to swagger into the Dragon's Den full of...

Engage thoroughly examines the social media landscape and how to effectively use social media to succeed in business--one network and one tool at a time. It leads you through the detailed and specific steps required for conceptualizing, implementing, managing, and measuring a social media program. The result is the ability to increase visibility, build communities of loyal brand enthusiasts, and increase profits.

Covering everything...

Startup Weekend--the organization behind 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups--has spawned both a global initiative in entrepreneurship as well as numerous successful startups. Startup Weekend, the book, contains best practices, lessons learned, and empowering examples derived from the organization's experiences for individuals and small organizations to follow as they launch...

Food trucks have become a wildly popular and important part of the hospitality industry. Consumers are flocking to these mobile food businesses in droves, inspiring national food truck competitions and even a show dedicated to the topic on The Food Network. The relatively low cost of entry as compared to starting a restaurant, combined with free and low-cost ways to market them to the masses via platforms like social media, are just two of the reasons that food truck business are drawing in budding entrepreneurs.

Whether you're just starting out and want to test the viability of your business, or you're an established business looking to expand your reach, pop-ups offer an exciting and flexible opportunity. They're a great way to try new business ideas, experiment with a new product, location or market, gain exposure, and learn about your customers - all with limited risk and financial outlay.

Inside Pop-Up Business For Dummies, you'll find:

• Planning your pop-up venture - whether it's a shop, studio, gallery, or community hub.
• Finding the right space for...

The media has named the growing trend toward micro-entrepreneurship -the Rise of the Creative Class, - -the Gig Life, - or -the freelance economy.- All of those refer to the nearly 4 million workers who were self-employed this past year, and millions of others who currently supplement their income with freelance work. While the trend has been spotted before, there's one stark difference between micro-entrepreneurs today and the -Free Agent Nation- citizens of the late '90s: technology....

Selling can be uncomfortable for professional business consultants and executive coaches. The two biggest problems are generating more qualified leads, and turning those leads into actual paying clients. Taking traditional beliefs about how best to -sell- and turning them completely upside down, author Jay Niblick rewrites the sales playbook for the consulting and coaching industry. His proven five-step sales process is specifically designed for independent business consultants and coaches, serving as a common set of rules to grow their practice, deliver more value and generate more...

Every day, business and corporate startups take action based on assumptions. Yet these assumptions are based largely on guesswork that leads to everything from costly mistakes to the failure of ventures. Fortunately, there are ways to overcome these issues and excel in your business endeavors--and this book will show you how.

Engaging and informative, Pivot provides entrepreneurs with practical guidance for achieving success in corporate ventures as well as new startups. Based...

• A coherent introduction to e-business.
  
• Features case studies of the transformation of various industries, including banking, the music industry, e-tailing, the telecoms industry, and e-public services.
  
• Discusses...

These insightful interviews are presented in a way that will help readers understand the founders local or a global views, how they competed on the global scale, if and how they...

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail--not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.

What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean.

In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a "product/market fit" for your fledgling venture, based on his own experience in...